Pattern and Match

The appearance of articles on the blog slowed this month for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the most significant was a total internet outage....

After the 2020 sporadic E season I planned improvements to my 6 meter capabilities in 2021. Although the antenna is unchanged there are sev...

One slow step at a time my Beverage receive antenna plan is steadily progressing. As of this week I have 3 of the planned 4 reversible Beve...

I receive many inquiries about wire yagis. This corresponds well with the blog statistics since the most popular article over the 8 year run...

One consequence of the pandemic has been a dearth of DXpeditions. You might therefore think that the DXpeditions or other moderately rare DX...

As my antennas get higher I run into novel difficulties. In one sense it's a nice problem to have considering that few hams have antenna...

This past weekend was the annual running of the ARRL DX SSB contest . As contests go this is no longer one of my favourites. Also, I don...